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species of baobab

The African
baobab (
A. digitata) boasts the oldest known angiosperm tree: carbon-14 dating places the age of a specimen in Namibia at about 1,275 years. Known as the “Tree of Life,” the species is found throughout the drier regions of Africa and features a water-storing trunk that may reach a diameter of 9 metres (30 feet) and a height of 18 metres (59 feet). Older...

tree girth

Records for tree girth (measured a metre or so above the ground) are held by the
baobab (
Adansonia digitata) of Africa and the Mexican swamp cypress (
Taxodium mucronatum). The
baobab attains a maximum height of about 23 metres (75 feet); its barrel-shaped trunk attains a diameter of more than 5 metres (16 feet), but a few individuals range from 7.7 to 15.9 metres (25 to 53 feet)....